Parasoft's business partner Skytap recently invited Wayne Ariola (Parasoft Chief Strategy Officer) to be a guest on their DevHops podcast. With Skytap's Noel Wurst moderating, Wayne and Skytap's Jason English chatted about continuous testing, service virtualization, and how SDLC accele...

Learn how automated API testing helped the Dutch government build a robust and secure personal identification system on an extremely aggressive timeline. Through a combination of regression, functional and load testing, the organization reduced testing cycles from 3 weeks to just 1 day...

"People are a lot more knowledgeable about APIs now. There are two types of people who work with APIs - IT people who want to use APIs for something internal and the product managers who want to do something outside APIs for people to connect to them," explained Roberto Medrano, Execut...

Best practices for helping DevOps and Test collaborate in ways that make your SDLC leaner and more scalable.
The business demand for "more innovative software, faster" is driving a surge of interest in DevOps, Agile and Lean software development practices. However, today's testing pro...

The new Forrester Research report on Functional Test Automation Tools* emphasizes that API testing is a critical component for modern application delivery: "In order to support continuous quality and faster development, especially for those on an Agile and DevOps journey, testing must ...

Learn the top API testing issues that organizations encounter and how automation plus a DevOps team approach can address these top API testing challenges.
Ensuring API integrity is difficult in today's complex application cloud, on-premises and hybrid environment scenarios. In this in...

You can create report templates in docx format with a simple word processor and through 4WS.Platform automate the report generation.
Reports creation is a common problem to face with, when developing web applications. When designing a report, usually a tool is needed to define the rep...

Cloud data governance was previously an avoided function when cloud deployments were relatively small. With the rapid adoption in public cloud – both rogue and sanctioned, it’s not uncommon to find regulated data dumped into public cloud and unprotected. This is why enterprises and clo...

In this short video I summarized what I have learned about technologies and the latest trends over the past few weeks.
I just circumnavigated the globe over a two week period. I have never done that before. I learned about mobile solutions, digital transformation, IoT, big data, In...

Roberto Medrano, Executive Vice President at SOA Software, had reached 30,000 page views on his home page - http://RobertoMedrano.SYS-CON.com/ - on the SYS-CON family of online magazines, which includes Cloud Computing Journal, Internet of Things Journal, Big Data Journal, and SOA Worl...

“We just completed the roll out of our first public and private cloud offerings, which are a combination of public, hybrid, and private cloud,” stated Erik Levitt, CEO of Open Data Centers, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at the 14th International Cloud Expo®, held June 10-12, 2014, at th...

With “microSOAvices” environments, it seems like everything is different—software development methodologies, continuous deployments, and more. Another difference—one that’s often overlooked—is the importance of application performance monitoring in microSOAvices . This blog post explai...

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is an approach for abstracting enterprise software capabilities as reusable services in order to support more flexible business processes and ideally, more agile organizations. SOA was one of the hottest topics in information technology (IT) back off...

Microservices, for the uninitiated, are essentially the decomposition of applications into multiple services. This decomposition is often based on functional lines, with related functions being grouped together into a service. While this may sound a like SOA, it really isn't, especiall...

Read some great stories about why leading organizations across financial, retail, communications, utilities, travel, insurance, and other industries fell in love with service virtualization...
Why leading organizations across financial, retail, communications, utilities, travel, insur...

What is a hero? Well, to me, it’s someone who takes the right action when it’s needed and steps up to save the day.
Are there heroes in the workplace? People whose actions save the day? People who commit great acts of organizational excellence? I would say that there are. And more, I ...

Log data provides the most granular view into what is happening across your systems, applications, and end users. Logs can show you where the issues are in real-time, and provide a historical trending view over time. Logs give you the whole picture.
Traditionally log management and a...

If you're one of the many organizations exploring Service Virtualization as a way to "shift left" quality efforts and accelerate the SDLC, don't miss this recap of the top Service Virtualization research, papers, videos, and case studies from 2014.
The concept of leveraging a simulat...

In the last year, conversations about In-Memory Computing (IMC) have become more and more prevalent in enterprise IT circles, especially with organizations feeling the pressure to process massive quantities of data at the speed that is now being demanded by the Internet. The hype aroun...

Gordon E. Moore's famously predicted tech explosion was prophetic, but it may have hit a snag. While the number of transistors on integrated circuits has doubled approximately every two years since his 1965 paper, the ability to process and transact on data hasn't. We're now ingesting...

The amount of information available is increasing exponentially. Last October, David J. Cappuccio of technology research firm Gartner predicted that in the next five years, the average business will experience an 800 percent increase in its data capacity. How will organizations collect...

I'll explain the difference between two major categories in in-memory computing: In-Memory Database and In-Memory Data Grid.
A few months ago, I spoke at the conference where I explained the difference between caching and an in-memory data grid. Today, having realized that many people...

This article argues the validity of why consistent communication is essential for effective architecture. A two-phase process highlights the need of standardisation and collaboration as steps to a maturing architecture description process.
It then introduces Infrastructure Modelling L...

NoSQL databases are highly scalable and capable of solving a wide range of data problems, which make them great for supporting complex, unpredictable, and large volumes of data. While still considered relatively young in the enterprise software market--the current industry adoption is ...

An education portal application developed by a European non-profit organization links students to the higher education institutions where they wish to study, as well as to the government agency that helps them finance their education. When educational institutions want to develop and t...

The process of getting a successful mobile application deployed can be complex and daunting. Architecting, designing and developing natural user interfaces for touch and gesture on mobile devices is not the same as web and desktop UI design and development. Mobile devices are used in d...

On Halloween day, let's take a quick look at some of the top things that are killing software testers...
Accelerated Release Cycles
In response to today's demand for speed and "Continuous Everything," the software delivery conveyer belt keeps moving faster and faster. Considering ...

Machine-to-machine (M2M) technology and the resulting Internet of Things are leading us inexorably toward everything-as-a-service (XaaS). As more things get connected, the range of service opportunities expands. And as those services are presented online, they become available for use,...

The traditional approach to application delivery – do one big revision or introduce a major new feature over a short period – is rapidly being replaced by a new, faster and smarter approach, Continuous Delivery (CD). The core idea of CD is to create a repeatable, reliable and increment...

In my first post, I discussed how software and various tools are dramatically changing the Ops department. This post centers on the automation process.
When I was younger, you actually had to build a server from scratch, buy power and connectivity in a data center, and manually plug a...

Have you ever deployed a change to production and thought “All went well – Systems are operating as expected!” but then you had to deal with users complaining that they keep running into errors?
We recently moved some of our systems between two of our data centers – even moving some c...

I would say that only one out of a million exceptions thrown in an application actually makes it to a log file – unless you run your application in verbose logging mode – Do you agree? No? Here is why I think that is: because most exceptions are handled by your code or by the framework...

Further new sponsors announced including: CommVault, GCI, Huawei, Kaseya, NaviSite, Opengear, Riverbed, SolidFire, Techgate, Tintri and Zycko[London, 26 August 2014] The managed services and hosting industry is seeing an unprecedented level of change, with consolidation and birth of ne...

Over the past few weeks I have had several conversations related to calculating network topologies and how packet forwarding is done based on those topologies. I wrote this post about a year ago explaining some of these details, but after a conversation with a customer earlier this wee...

In a Feb 2014 survey, 94 percent of organizations surveyed reported running applications or experimenting with infrastructure-as-a-service.[1] According to research firm Nasumi, there is over one exabyte currently stored in the cloud. An exabyte is over a billion GB.[2] Considering the...

Los Angeles, CA, August 15, 2014 --(PR.com)-- Today, Solver, Inc. and eOne Integrated Business Solutions announced a global, strategic partnership to enhance the experience and ROI of their mutual customers and partners. Solver is the global leader in complete Business Intelligence su...

SOA is "Service-Oriented Architecture" and WOA, a more recent concept, is "Web-Oriented Architecture." Through WOA, EA & Governance practices are being used these days to ensure business alignment, proper sharing and quality while also using lightweight protocols to drive barrier-free consumption and composition.

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